At the trial on the Cutro massacre, the government will give full support to the six soldiers indicted. The executive makes a square around the four operators of the Guardia di Finanza and the two of the Port Authorities who will have to respond to the crimes of culpable shipwreck and a multiple manslaughter before the Crotone court, for the delays in the rescue at Caicco “Summer Love”.
The shipwreck took place on February 26, 2023 in the fence of Cutro and caused 94 deaths, including 35 minors. Pass only a few hours from the judge’s decision for the preliminary hearing, in the front row to raise the shields in defense of the defendants there is the Interior Ministry, with the minister planted themselves that it is said “certain that they will demonstrate their complete extraneousness with respect to the accusations that are addressed to them. The responsibility for misfortunes caused by the ruthlessness of human traffickers cannot be extended in any way to those who have always worked daily to ensure the safeguarding of people’s lives at sea and the affirmation of legality in complicated scenarios. We will be close to them in every way to support them in this battle of justice and civilizations ».
To express indignation for the indictment is also the League vice premier, Matteo Salvini who wrote on social networks: “One word: shame. Take six soldiers, who risk their lives every day to save other lives. Shame”. The position of Fratelli d’Italia clearly criticizes: “It is truly demeaning that those who defend everyone’s security should defend themselves in court as delinquents”, says the president of the senators of Fdi, Lucio Malan. In the same way the group leader of the same party in the Chamber, Galeazzo Bignami, He adds: «We can not accept that those who wear a uniform is transformed into the scapegoat of a drama generated by ruthless traffickers, who use human beings such as commodity. Rescue ».
For Emergency, Louise Michel, Mediterranea Saving Humans, Sea-Watch, Sos Humanity and Sos Mediterranee, which have been a civil party in the process, must be “clarified the sequence of events and omissions that led to one of the most tragic shipwrecks of Italian history. The process could be the right opportunity to shed light on all the critical passages, on the responsibilities of the six defendants and, hopefully, even on those of the higher officers and authorities “and” it should no longer be allowed that the managers of this as other shipwrecks remain unpunished while people continue to drown “. And the leader of Avs Nicola Fratoianni directly attacks the government:” It is paradoxical that in these hours of Salvini. Plan to many other exponents of the right, everyone is frantically fooled to express solidarity with the suspects of the Guardia di Finanza and the Coast Guard: there should be them on that bench of the accused ».